It’s been not only a long time since I’ve posted here, but it has been a long time since I shared photos of my place. The last time you guys saw where I lived I was still living at home with my parents. It was back in 2012, so easily 4 years ago you saw my collection. Now you can see not only has my collection grown, it’s doubled. Since the last time you saw my place I have since gotten an apartment. I live with my boyfriend of 5 years and one of our best friends as a roommate.

We originally had a 1 bedroom apartment and lived there for about a year, then we had a friend who needed a place to stay so we upgraded to a 3 bedroom, in the end it was cheaper for us and allowed us to have an office space. Since Taylor (my boyfriend) works from home we really did need an office space. When our original roommate moved out we got Nic our friend to move in and it’s been fabulous! We hang out all the time, play video games, watch movies, and eat dinner and just talk all night sometimes! It’s amazing living with cool people and we’re very lucky to get along so well!

This area above is our “dining room” but we mostly eat on the coffee table in front of the TV. I decided I wanted to fill up this area as much as I could with all our figures, but now our display cases are so filled the figures are spilling over to all around the house!

We have so many amazing figures and some great 18+ figures from companies like Skytube and Native! I’m a proud believer in not hiding your 18+ content in your own home. The only people allowed in my home are those who are open minded like myself and aren’t the type of people to judge us. All our friends are otaku and all our family understands us so we’ve never had any concern of hiding anything we own.

Thats why all our 18+ girls are proudly displayed right in the living room!

I had to share this photo of Cat Lap Girl! I adore this figure, Native is the best! <3 <3

The top of the TV is covered in figures too, originally we only had maybe 4-5 figures, but with the ever growing collection it’s packed now!

We also originally planned to only display 1 figure per cubby, but that idea went out the window very quickly!

It was impossible for me to own just 1 Umaru Nendoroid!
I’ve got so many dolls now, I remember when i only had Yoko and then Yoko and Yui! Now I have 10 dolls! The adorable ziggs bomb candle was a gift from my friend Vensy! You can buy them here!

Here is the office space, Taylor and I have split the room 50/50, here is his corner, of course you can tell it’s his section from all the Hinata fan art. Hinata happens to be his waifu and his favorite character! All of the art is fan art and I do my best to buy him new Hinata art when I find any at cons around the country. The pros of going to cons all the time means I get to see some amazing artists from around the country!

The rest of his wall is covered in Dakimakuras! Do you like the way we’ve hung them up? I’m trying to convince Taylor to sell these hangers for dakis online! It’s the best way to display them and very easy to flip them to another side when you want a change of view. Comment below and let us know if you’re interested!

Here is my corner that is much more disorganized! My desk is covered with figures and is never this neat. My walls are covered with various anime fan art and official art I love. Lots of Yoko because she is my love!
My desk is covered in Nendoroids and all sorts of various scale figure I adore! From my Free boys to Inori and Mikasa! I’ve got Lacia from beatless on there in the background and my beloved Dalek!

I’ve posted about how I store my Nendoroids before, Now I’ve expanded into two cases and I’ve started to label each drawer as I started getting confused who was who! I still have some space left in the black case, but I will be filling it up soon! It’s still my favorite way to store Nendoroid parts!

Now if you don’t know me… Hi, my name is Frances and I love Yoko! Yoko is my life, Yoko is my favorite and the best! I’ve made it my life goal to own every scaled PVC figure of Yoko and I own ALL OF THEM minus 1. There is a crazy hard to find variant of a Ichiban Kuji I haven’t found yet, but I will 1 day! PS if you find her online you tell me, you tell me and I’ll love you forever as I run to buy her!

This is some of the pride of my collection and I love my Yoko Detolf!

So many babies!
Of course our whole apartment is Otakufied! Even our bathroom has anime all over! It’s NSFW but still looks great!
As well about 85% of my towels are anime towels! I love buying towels while I’m in Japan so I end up with all sorts of cool towels!

Here is the bedroom and it’s much more of my taste for sure, Taylor likes to have his sections clean and organized and this is more of an explosion of my favorite things. We both like to sleep in total darkness so I’ve got blackout curtains and since we rarely open the windows I covered the curtains with more anime too!

This is another one of my pride and joys! It’s my Gurren Lagann flag signed by various members of the Gurren Lagann team. My ultimate goal is to get it signed by everyone who worked on Gurren Lagann!! Luckily through working with Good Smile Company we sometimes get chances to meet these amazing creators! I do my best to be polite but still ask for an autograph!

More NSFW girls on display! Plus more of my beloved Yoko, this was one of the first anime towels I ever got but the print was so beautiful and well detailed that I never used it as a towel and have had it hung up for years.

Of course the figures have expanded throughout the entire apartment and now they are on display even in the bedroom, along with the rest of my girls!
Some of my other loves are Card Captor Sakura so I also do my best to get my hands on cute CCS merchandise too! Also my talented roommate Nic created some custom faces for me, can you spot them?
I’ve got a few older figures that I love here too, such as figures from Akira, those are actually my oldest figures! They came out back in 2003! Of course I didn’t buy them in 2003 as I didn’t start collecting until 2006! Wow that means it’s been ten years that I’ve been a figure collector!
More Miku and more CCS!
More Yoko of course! I’m so glad I found this bed sheet, I needed it!

Found this Tsukiko bedsheet on one of my recent trips to Japan! Taylor really likes Tsukiko so I always look for cute things of her!
Some more of my plushie collection, I love stuffed animals and I have so many! I have never gotten ridden of one, not even from my childhood, but my mom has all of them stored at her house for me.

I did mention having a roommate and he’s also an Otaku too! We jokingly bought him little girl sheets with Pinky Pie as he is a Brony and Pinky Pie is his favorite, but he’s man enough to rock little girl sheets!

Nic is also a figure collector and if you’ve come to out Good Smile Company booth at AX then you might have seen him! I tend to wrangle my friends to help out at events when we need more hands on deck!

His collection is small compared to mine, but he does have some amazing quality pieces! Such as Love is War Miku!

One of his favorite characters is Haruhi Suzumiya, so this is small Haruhi shrine. I’ve made it my personal goal to help him get all the figma Haruhi that have been made, he still needs Cheerleader Haruhi, but I’ll get her for him one day! I’m an idiot and didn’t see Haruhi in the photo and TOTALLY FORGOT I already got it for him…

He also loves Sonico! I love his display style of how each shelf has a theme.

Here is his video game theme!

A Kancolle shelf!

One thing to know about Nic is that he is by far, the best figma poser ever. I have never seen someone take to figma s well as him. He loves figma and has a large figma collection. Since he doesn’t have a lot of room to display them all he keeps some in their boxes and rotates the figma he has on display very often.
More Kancolle figma on his desk!
Bruce Lee and Nyaruko figma!

He’s great at action shots too!
He’s also one of the biggest Berserk fans I know.
He’s got some Native babes too!
Our entire home is all anime, it’s a wonderful feeling to know that the people around me are accepting and love the same things I do. I’ve built up an amazing support system and I’m glad to have an amazing boyfriend and a great roommate. I hope you liked the tour of our place.

But I want to leave you with some words of advice. Please don’t look at my home with jealousy or envy. Instead realize that this is the combined collection of 3 people who have been collecting anime merchandise for 10+ years. It’s taken us a long time to get to this point in our lives and none of this was overnight. Tay and I work within the Industry, (I work for Good Smile Company, Taylor works for Fakku) so we also have a great appreciation for everything in our life. I also want to say that never let anyone judge you for your collection, whether it’s anime, movies, trains, cars, shoes, makeup, guns or anything that makes you happy. Just remember that Quality > Quantity and to NEVER EVER EVER go into debt over your fandom!

P.S. we’re doing a cool giveaway on my work twitter to win some Nendoroid and figma of the new Snow Miku! Please check it out and enter to win! whl4u.jp/en/campaign

If you guys remember from not long ago I mentioned how I now work for Good Smile Company. I also run another blog for them called The Mamitan Blog! Ok it’s more of a placeholder name until I think of a catchy name for the blog, but I like doing some cool photos and cool content when I can!

Recently I took photos of my Shinobu for the Mamitan Blog. You can see me talk about the figure in more detail there. I thought I’d share with you a photo I couldn’t share on the Mamitan Blog!

It’s not that bad but this one has a teeny bit of a panty shot! Thought I’d show you guys the goods!

Shinobu is up for rerelease too, if you missed out on her first run now is a great time to pick her up. I know she’s been selling for over $250! So getting her at retail is quite a steal! You can pre-order at the Good Smile Online Shop directly too!

So since I’ve moved into my new apartment I still hadn’t set up my photography studio. Seems work has me busier than I thought I would ever be, however I took some time this past weekend to set up my studio so I could take some photos of my latest purchase, Alter’s 1/8th Melty from Shining Hearts.

Now I don’t know much about Shining Hearts, or even Melty for that matter. But what I do know is her character design is created by Tony Taka and I LOVE TONY TAKA! I adore figures created based on his illustrations, I buy all the Tony art books I can get and even his amazing pervy doujins from Comiket!

Getting Melty was not an option in my book, especially when I even entered the Volks Lottery for Dollfie Dream Melty and lost!! There was no way I was going to miss out on this figure!

hmmm, now I want ice cream!

Nothing to say about the quality of the figure that you can’t already tell from the photos. She’s well made and the quality one expects from Alter. They did an awesome job replicating her amazing design into figure form!

Even her Sorbet comes dangling off her spoon! He’s just too cute!

I’d imagine her butt would get cold very quickly by sitting on some ice cream… Would you mind if Melty sat on your ice cream cone?

Melty is magnificent, I’m glad I own her and she’s a great addition to my collection. Will you be getting her?

Pre-ordered this figure the moment she was released for pre-order. I needed for for multiple reasons, she’s sexy/half naked, plus while she’s not Sora she reminds me of Sora from Yosuga no Sora! But she’s Yuki from Maid Yome and she’s pretty amazing.

The only issue is her adorable mouth really looks better from certain angles and sadly it doesn’t translate well in some photos. Here it looks a little wide but it’s much cuter and smaller in person.

From here on out the photos are NSFW!

Poor Yuki isn’t wearing much and the little that she’s wearing is coming right off!

But at least she’s got a pretty sweet ass!

She also comes with an awesome removeable top. It’s interesting how they did this cast off, her breasts are a separate piece that needs to be placed on her chest. However the placement of her arms cover any seams that you’d otherwise be able to see.

More of her sweet sweet ass! Ok I love her butt, it’s so nice!!

A fun thing about Yuki is she also happens to also be touching herself! SO THAT’S THE REASON HER PANTS ARE OFF!?!?! Well more power to her!

Orchid Seed even went through and sculpted the details on her bottom. I’m pretty proud of them for including some more details! It seems more and more there are more companies giving some extra added detail! I like it but at the same time this isn’t a figure that you display on her back so it’s not the first thing you see. It’s not for everyone and for sure I’d maybe put her away if I had friends or family with young ones coming over, but otherwise it’s not a super noticeable feature. Just nice to know they added it for accuracy!

I love this figure, I think Orchid Seed still has some work to do with their cast off seams. The shoulders don’t fit in too well, otherwise the figure looks great. I’m happy I bought her and I’ve got her sitting on my desk now to giving some added sexiness to the room!

I recently went on a trip to a magical place, The Container Store. Ok it’s not really magical, but I happen to have discovered a love for organizing my home. I tend to prefer Ikea and Daiso but we went to The Container Store on a whim and I discovered this lovely storage container! I’ve been needing something for my Nendoroids and this just seemed like the perfect option!

It comes with two different types of storage spaces, these wider spots that I can use for combining characters, for example, these contain all my various forms of Madoka Nendoroid; Original Madoka, Ultimate Madoka, School Uniform Madoka and Madoka Maiko! This way I can mix and match faces bewteen Madoka Nendoroids and still maintain her character.

It also comes with these much smaller shelves that are good for individual Nendoroids. I’ve got Nendoroid Nano here with all of her option parts!

Even the back of it comes with parts you can remove to change and modify the sizes of various shelves. It’s really an awesome thing for Nendoroid collectors! I have over 80 Nendoroids and I’ve been able to fit all of their option parts into this one case!

This is the case I got, I got the larger of the set of 3 shown. At a retail price of $39.99 it’s a great price for some piece of mind to know I’ve got all my Nendoroid parts organized!

Volks has announced a Yoko figure I NEED! Ok so I don’t seem to fully understand the Chara Gumin line, it seems to be pre-painted kits. They need a bit of detail but not much it seems.

I’ve seen far too many people complain about this figure, I actually really like the design and for everyone complaining that Yoko is too young for this… THIS IS POST TIME SKIP!!! SHE’S 21 HERE!!!

NICE!

*drools*

She seems to be crazy exclusive, she’ll be on sale in certain stores in Japan and then in Wonfes. But lucky me! I’m going to Wonfes again this summer! I’m beyond excited, totally going to sneak off and get one during my break! You can get more information on Volks’ site.

Back again to post about a figure that I’M IN LOVE WITH! Let me premise this with something… This post has nothing to do with GSC or anyone i’m affiliated with, just my own personal thoughts!

I’m loving Wing’s work! Their latest release Fiona: Shunya Yamashita from the game Border Break is just down right fabulous! The details are amazing, the pose is great. But above all, it shows the reason why I personally can’t stand Kotobukiya’s Bishoujo line! I can’t stand how they do the faces. I feel none of them truly reflect Shunya Yamashita’s artwork properly.

Too many times do I see a figure prototype ruined by a poor face! Shunya’s designs are very unique and if not replicated properly it doesn’t translate well at all!

OMG I ONLY JUST NOTICED HOW AMAZING HER BUT LOOKS HERE! Sorry for yelling, I’m just in love!
I love how the face is on this figure so much! She’s out for pre-order now on the Good Smile Company Online Shop. Gonna see if I can snag some photos of her for the blog laters! Also I’ve been posting a ton more on my Good Smile Company Mamitan blog! Check it out!
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Haven’t posted in so long now! I miss you guys! I’ve been really busy with work over at Good Smile Company! I’ve got some news for you all if you haven’t been all caught up. I’m officially running the GSC Facebook, as well as a new English Good Smile Blog called Mamitan Blog! Please check them both out and stay tuned there for more GSC figure news! I make new blog posts every Mon, Wed, and Friday!

For this update I thought I’d show off my newest girl! I pucked up her head at this past Wonfes in Japan! There is a nice section of people who bring out all sorts of amazing Doll stuff. More photos of the doll section at Danny Choo’s site.

I wasn’t planning on getting any new girls for a while as I already have 4 girls and was planning on making a 5th and possibly buying Mari for a 6th. So seeing this head at Wonfes, that she was so cute and a really great price I couldn’t help myself!
I’ve named her Hikari for no particular reason, just the first name that popped into my head when looking at her and thinking of a name.
I’ll be doing more to post on here, I know I keep promising this but I’m gonna buckle down for you guys! For more things to read however please check out my new Mamitan Blog!

Went back to Desu Nation the other day for a Maid Cafe event they were having. Sadly I forgot my camera and didn’t take any photos but it was fun and next time they are doing one I’ll make sure to promote it as you guys would LOVE IT just as much as I did! But afterwards they had a fun tournament for Weiis Schwarz, but here was the kicker! You could only use Trial decks! They tend to be a bit easier to play and have base cards with not too high a power, but it doesn’t let anyone have an unfair advantage. I decided to join in and purchased my own new trial deck of Sword Art Online!

The cards are beautiful which is really a big thing for me when getting a deck. I also jumped the gun a little bit and got the cards before I had even seen more than 3 episodes of the series. I ended up getting caught up and liked it a lot so I’m glad I got these cards! For a trial deck it’s pretty powerful and for once during a tournament I held my own and was 4th overall!

Can’t not get a case to hold your cards in! I also just finished watching The Idolm@ster and am looking forward to making an Idolm@ster deck soon! Picked up the Miki holder but also want the Makoto and the Hibiki ones too!

The other side of the case!

As well you can’t get fancy cards without a fancy card sleeve! Got the Melty one as I’m in LOVE with anything Tony Taka and couldn’t pass up the lovely Melty! I also just recently found out for Christmas my present from my brother was he entered the Volks Lottery for Dollfie Dream Sister Melty for me as I wasn’t able to order her myself. So I’m not waiting on pins and needles to find out if he won or not!

Back on the subject of Weiss Schwarz, if you are local in So-cal stop by Desu Nation one day. I might be there late at night playing with some friends! It’s really a fun game and if you’re even slightly interested we’ll find a deck to hook you in!

AX Live! Every Thursday at 7pm PST! We’ve been doing Giveaways recently so make sure to check out the show to be able to win some awesome prizes!! Plus every week we give away a 2day badge to the convention for 2013!

Need last minute gift for your otaku friends? Or maybe you just wanna pick up some stuff for yourself? Hobby Link Japan has so many gifts perfect for the gift giver on a budget! With gifts ranging from 50, 100, 200 and 300 yen! While they don’t seem to have much in the Figure department among Fun goods and other categories I spotted tons of awesome stuff for friends and family who love anime! Even picked up some Card Captor Sakura Stickers for myself! Hurry now as this sale ends 5pm Monday December 10 JST (midnight Monday night PST).

Also, Sorry for the lack of updates, with work and my recent move I’ve had very little time to make regular posts. However through work I have a tumblr where I post the latest GSC figure releases. I’ll try and do the same here when I can but most of the info goes up on my tumblr.

AX Live! Every Thursday at 7pm PST! We’ve been doing Giveaways recently so make sure to check out the show to be able to win some awesome prizes!! Plus every week we give away a 2day badge to the convention!!